Home
Quotes
Picture quotes
Random
Facebook Covers
Home
Quotes
Picture quotes
Random
Facebook Covers
No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.
Quote by Vladimir Nabokov
Topics:
Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Related Quotes
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the...
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like...
Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being...
Solitude is the play field of Satan
Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even...
Genius is an African who dreams up snow
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory,...
All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain...
I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels...
There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an...
Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be...
I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons...
There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of...